Quotes About Confrontation

Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom

I must face them. I must fight them. But they are stupid. How can one fight with stupidity?

You know how it happens when sometimes one starts arguing, knowing well that one is in the wrong, and this knowledge just makes one get more vicious and unbending in argument?

I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains.

door, or I'll kick it in. I mean it. And guess whose allowance will pay for the repairs?" She could hear him stirring then, muttering curse words. "No swearing!" she snapped. "You do it!" "Not when I think you can

Man, just so you know,...I am NEVER getting on your bad side. Vince forced half a grin. Like we say in Chicago. She had it coming.

Frostpine made a face. Lifting the cup, he dumped its contents down his throat. "Auugghh!" he yelled, his voice stronger than it had been since his return from the harbor. Are you trying to kill me, woman? If I mean to kill someone, I do it, Rosethorn told him. I don't try.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, my lord. You are an evil man.

It's always better to attack than to defend, Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!

What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka? she asked. I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful, I replied.

She glared at him. Why are you forever asking hard questions? He smiled. Sooner or later you'll have to be able to answer one. Daja shoved him, grinning.

Excuse me, she said politely. But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me.

She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.

Then I'll Dog him, and I'll catch him, and I'll cage him again,' I said. 'And again, and again, and again, until his patron tires if him and the Snake tires of me.' 'Or until he kills you,' someone else said. 'Nobody's killing Beka,' Rosto told them, his eyes turned to black stone.

Ask you to keep an eye on her, keep her safe, and you allow my child to be used in that! Flatten your fur, Weiryn, replied the badger. What makes you think I had a choice? The Great Ones can find another instrument! Why didn't you tell them so? I did tell them, you horn-headed idiot. They didn't listen. She didn't listen. If you have a complaint, you take it up with the Graveyard Hag.

Daine put a hand on her bow. It was loaded, but she didn't want to kill Maura's sister. I wouldn't call names, if I was you she retorted. Yolane backed up. Tirell! Oram! Jemis! To me! Oram, on the double! Daine shook her head. Yell all you like, they won't come. They're gone. What do you mean, 'gone'? I mean it's at an end the king knows what you're up to. The rebellion's uncovered. You'll never be queen.

Have what you want, king, she sang at him. And then she threw something right at him.

It seemed that across some thirty paces of mosaic, candle wax and human forms, Leopardo had singled him out. The observation was not actually a threat, more a calculation. Romulan, sensing himself weighed, would neither glance away nor move. At risk of dislocation of the neck, he gave Leopardo back watch for watch. The tableau was ended suddenly by a blast of tenor trumpets from the head of the banner-draped stairway.

Like adamant she stared down at him, and some were certain they beheld her abhorence of him now, naked as swords in her gaze, as if she might kill him all over again.

I will shove my fist so far down your fucking throat that you'll be shitting my fingernails for a week.

His hand flashed, slapping her cheek with an open palm before she saw it moving. The force of his blow snapped her head sideways. Tears sprang to her eyes.

Maybe they only come out at night," I said, staring into the flames. "Why would evil wait for night? Is it that limited?

But he'd resisted them, and the more he did, the harsher their attacks became. During the worst of it, he'd begged for death. Death is too small a price for your sins, they'd whispered. They wanted him alive for the final showdown. For the day Haven Valley was destroyed from within. Jamie didn't understand what it meant, but their haunting words filled him with a deeper fear than he'd ever known.

Laws of silence don't work.... When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant....